COACHING WITH MARTHA
In the action phase we will continue the progress you have achieved in the development and reflection phases. An integral part of coaching is working on strategies or action plans that enable you to test out, integrate and synthesize what you have learned about yourself, between sessions. We will review these inter-session experiences together. New activities or attitudes for you to adopt or mindfulness or somatic exercises to practice will be created. In this way, you will advance, or validate your internal discoveries in the outside world.
Action: How & when will it happen?
Reflection: Why do you want it?
As partners, we will work together to discover what led you to want what you want. We will reflect on the feelings and insights from within that will support you on your path forward. We may search for, or notice images, landscapes or stories that hold answers or clues. Recognizing patterns and habits that impede, or influence the change you seek, cloud your focus, or obstruct the transitions you desire will be examined. It may be useful to look and reorganize certain memories and thoughts so that you find a path toward healthier behaviors and happier thinking in the reflection phase. With compassionate preparedness for the unexpected Martha will support you as you access what was hidden.
In our first session we will develop an understanding of what you want or what you don’t want happening in your life. In each session after that we will refocus what we have developed as your vision or desired outcome in the one before. The change you are looking for may lead us to examine different conditions, goals, desires, directions and approaches. It may also be interesting for us to consider any forces or directives that influence or drive what you want to pursue in coaching. Achieving clarity in the development phase becomes easier and more effective as coaching progresses.
Development: What do you want?
The CDRA approach is three-tiered to achieve your maximum goals. Our Coaching will be fluid but focused on your Development, Reflection & Action.
CDRA Coaching For Career Change
Life, Business & Executive Coaching from Professional Business Coach & Attorney: Martha Croog
Martha Croog is the founder of CDRA: Coaching for Development, Reflection and Action. She took the first steps to starting her business after an impactful visit at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA where she truly came to terms with the obstacles she had defied in her life. She had recently remarried and given birth to a beautiful, healthy, boy late in life and was inspired there by two healing specialists who encouraged Martha to help women who wanted to do the same.
That is when Martha saw something that she hadn’t been able to see before — that she could, and was ready to help people overcome obstacles just as she had done — as a coach. CDRA coaching was launched by Martha’s transition from the exclusive practice of law, to the consolidation of her mindfulness practice with her coaching education.
As a coach, Martha is dedicated to helping others to break through or reconfigure, obstacles and barriers in their lives by discovering answers within themselves that they didn’t know they had. Shared watershed moments are not infrequent at CDRA. ​​
Coaching Qualifications:
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Affiliate Member, Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate
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Certification in Listening to Bodies Long Distance, Suzanne Zeman
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Certification of Completion, Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling Online James Lawley and Penny Tompkins
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Trained in Presence-Based Coaching, Levels I and II, Doug Silsbee
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Trained in Clean Coaching, Angela Dunbar
Accomplishments:
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Majored in Drama and Psychology at University of Michigan
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Received Juris Doctor from Hofstra Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review and taught an adult ballet class at Hofstra University. Admitted to New York (1982) and Connecticut (1991) bars.
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Practiced securities law in NYC and CT in connection with public and private offerings, in the capacity of both issuer and underwriter counsel.
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Started and grew a woman-owned law firm dedicated to the mortgage banking industry, in a male-dominated practice area, which began in the sunroom of her home and expanded to the management of a 15 employee law firm in downtown Hartford.
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Teacher and trainer for lawyers, administrative staff and clients, inter- and intra-state.
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When her daughters were 10 months to six years, became a single mother to those three now accomplished and amazing young women.
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Remarried and gave birth to a beautiful healthy boy late in life.
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Transitioned to consulting and coaching practice 35 years after admission to NY bar.
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Are you ready to explore the terrain you've traveled? Are you open to experiencing the fluidity and insight that moves you past the obstacles and fears in your present path—with sustaining resourcefulness? Are you open to the joy and confidence that will come as you let go of what you do not need? Are you prepared to know, and experience what you want to have happen?
If the answer to one or more of these questions is yes, AND you are ready to work with Martha, then please call her, or send her an e-mail, or use Martha’s messaging portal to discuss her availability so that your shared coaching adventure can begin.
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CLIENT PORTAL
CDRA, at its inception, was named for the four most abundant sources of inspiration in my life-: Charlotte, Deana, Rose, and Ari
The CDRA Secret
Have you lost your job after a 40-year career, and want to take advantage of a chance to bring new meaning to your life?​
Are you looking to reinvent yourself in the “real world” after your children have left home?
Is your business partnership failing and you are not sure how to re-establish your professional identity?
Are you trying to decide what’s next from your first job out of college or graduate school?
By Coaching through Development, Reflection and Action you will discover professional choices that empower you to take the steps needed to bring the desired change into your life.
CDRA FOR CAREER TRANSITIONS IN YOUR LIFE
